D66 leader Rob Jetten has criticised the caretaker government’s plans to extend the qualifying period for Dutch citizenship from five years to 10, arguing it could deter skilled workers from moving to the Netherlands. In an interview with Dutch News, Jetten also argued that more changes to the migration rules would increase the burden on the immigration service IND, which warned last week that it was struggling to keep up with its caseload. “We want newcomers in this country, whether they come here to study, for asylum or work, or for love, as in my own case, to know where they stand,” Jetten, whose partner is Argentinian men’s hockey player Nicolás Keenan, said. But Jetten said the measure would make it harder for people to put down permanent roots. She said it was “not realistic to expect the IND to keep processing the same number of cases while extra work is falling on the IND and the average amount of work per case is increasing.”